THE CIVIL SERVICE GUIDE TO HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY. PART I. BEING THE HISTORICAL QUESTIONS IN THE CIVIL ARRANGED UNDER THE SEVERAL PERIODS AND REIGNS TO WHICH THEY BELONG. BY W. A. BROWNE, LL.D. LONDON: EDWARD STANFORD 6, CHARING CROSS. PREFACE. CANDIDATES for the Civil Service, in preparing for exami nation, may turn to good account the questions which the Civil Service Examiners have proposed, from time to time, to persons presenting themselves for examination. Keeping this in view I have brought together the questions that have hitherto been set by the Examiners, and arranged them under the several periods and reigns, so that they may be used in conjunction with any good school class book on history. Thus the student in "getting up his daily lesson in history, can readily make himself acquainted with the style of questions which he must expect at his Examination. In this way, and without any great labour to himself, he will acquire more knowledge of the kind necessary for him than he could otherwise do in a much longer time. For searching through the Civil Service Reports for questions that may have been set upon any particular portion of history is an arduous undertaking, always irksome and dry, seldom profitable, and, moreover, involving considerable waste of time. This book is designed to save tutors and schoolmasters the trouble of going through the numerous Civil Service Reports to select those questions which refer to the "lesson" of the day. It is not supposed, nor do I wish to imply, that questions as searching as those in the Reports, could not be propounded by any first-class teacher; but as the object is to prepare the student to pass a good examination before the Civil Service Exa iv miners, it is desirable to accustom him to the very questions which the Examiners are in the habit of proposing. In the first Edition, references were given to the pages of certain books on history where the answers might be found, but it has been a pretty general complaint that such references gave an undue preference to these books, while other works equally as good would also supply the answers. In the present Edition all those references have been omitted. The questions under each reign have been more carefully classified and arranged; to facilitate references, dates are given in the margin, and the frequent repetition of the same question (though from different Reports) has been avoided. Instead of repeating the question as often as it is found in the Reports, I have added to it the pages of the Civil Service Reports in which it recurs. W. A. B. |